Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:48:47 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tony Gale wrote:
> On 23-Apr-99 Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> >> It ought to one of two things:
> >>
> >> - Use a thread to handle each request, all in one process.
> >
> > No, that would be insane. Perhaps use threads the way it now uses
> > processes, but not one thread per request -- that would be death as
> > far as performance goes.
>
> Depends. You can use a thread pool and queue requests which are then
> picked up by the threads.

how do you propose to do that efficiently? is there a nice way in
Unix/Linux to hand out incoming network requests to a pool of threads?

- Chuck Lever

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